--- title: The slow loris is one of very few venomous mammals; when a loris rai… — The nocturnal house: night animals by red light · tree and pragmatics description: The slow loris is one of very few venomous mammals; when a loris raises its arms while being tickled, it is frightened and getting ready to bite. Who acts: slow loris, loris. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (slow loris, loris), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:095-the-nocturnal-house-night-animals-by-red-light.lesson:7 # text = The slow loris is one of very few venomous mammals; when a loris raises its arms while being tickled, it is frightened and getting ready to bite. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 095-the-nocturnal-house-night-animals-by-red-light.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 slow slow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 loris loris NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 24 parataxis _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 7 very very ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 venomous venomous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 mammals mammal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 12 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 15 advmod _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 loris loris NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 raises raise VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ _ 16 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 18 while while SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 19 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 aux:pass _ _ 20 tickled tickle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 advcl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj:pass _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:aux:pass 24 frightened frighten VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 getting get VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 conj _ _ 27 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 xcomp _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 bite bite VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the slow loris | one | | | | of few venomous mammals | tree rules | | 2 | **raise** | present | a loris | loris's arms | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme | | 3 | **tickle** | gerund · passive | a loris *not said here* | | | | | | vn tingle-40.8.2 «NP V» | | 4 | **is** | present · passive | | loris | | | | frighten *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **get** | gerund | | | | | | ready *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **bite** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:095-the-nocturnal-house-night-animals-by-red-light.lesson:7`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. 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